Interesting program on “A Way With Words” this week. One caller was asking if “disadulation” was a word. It apparently was coined on “The Office”, a show I should probably watch. Of course, their answer was correct-a word is a word determined by its usage, not by the Word Police. If you say a word, and the listener correctly gauges your meaning, then its a word-it communicated an idea. That’s what words do.

We beat Texas again last night, although it was a struggle. Dice K keeps having his one big inning trouble-he loses location for an inning or so, then finds it again. But we hung on to win, making some mischief against their pen. The Yankees keep losing. I’d say they are dead, but we all know that 13 ½ games as late as August can evaporate (see Zimmer, Don or Buffalo Head Club, The)